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Biographical details

Nat Marshall is a clinical triallist and epidemiologist specialising in sleep and sleep disorders, including sleep apnea, insomnia, REM Behaviour disorder, and sleep duration. He uses a wide variety of epidemiological research methods and designs including randomised controlled trials and population-based cohorts. Employing both objective and subjective measurement methods he and his team are attempting to measure the impact of disease, the effectiveness of a variety of treatments and investigate health system activity related to sleep. He is providing high-quality evidence-based information of direct and immediate benefit to both practicing clinicians and policy-makers.

Nat has undergraduate degrees in psychology and accounting, a postgraduate diploma in health sciences from the University of Otago and a PhD in public health, focused on clinical trials and related methodology from Massey University in New Zealand. He has over 10 years practical experience in designing, running, analysing, reporting and reviewing both pharmacological and non-pharmacological clinical trials and systematic reviews and meta-analyses of clinical trials in his specialist area of sleep medicine.

He continues to supervise and mentor multiple graduate students in epidemiology and clinical trials methodology in a research-led teaching environment through funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). He also publishes observational epidemiological studies using a wide variety of research designs, including from the influential Busselton Sleep Apnea cohort. Nat has authored over 60 published articles in the medical literature since 2003 and is a deputy editor of the Journal of Sleep Research.

He joined Sydney Nursing School in January 2012 as Senior Lecturer in Clinical Trials and is the Course Coordinator for the Graduate Certificate Clinical Trials Practice program.

Associations

Deputy Editor of the Journal of Sleep Research

Member of the Australasian Sleep Association (Research Committee Member), Australasian Epidemiology Association, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Sleep Research Society and the European Sleep Research Society

Journal reviewer
Nat is a regular peer-reviewer for funding agencies (eg NHMRC) and major general and specialist medical journals such the British Medical Journal, Thorax, and SLEEP.

Bin, Y., Marshall, N., Glozier, N. (2013). Sleeping at the limits: the changing prevalence of short and long sleep durations in 10 Countries. American Journal of Epidemiology, 177(8), 826-833. [More Information]

Bin, Y., Marshall, N., Glozier, N. (2012). The burden of insomnia on individual function and healthcare consumption in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 36(5), 462-468. [More Information]

Bin, Y., Marshall, N., Glozier, N. (2013). Sleeping at the limits: the changing prevalence of short and long sleep durations in 10 Countries. American Journal of Epidemiology, 177(8), 826-833. [More Information]

Bin, Y., Marshall, N., Glozier, N. (2012). The burden of insomnia on individual function and healthcare consumption in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 36(5), 462-468. [More Information]